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Re: Islamic Mobile Service from SalamFone [telecom]

From David Clayton <dcstar@myrealbox.com>
Newsgroups comp.dcom.telecom
Subject Re: Islamic Mobile Service from SalamFone [telecom]
Date 2011-04-13 13:53 +1000
Organization The Telecom Digest
Message-ID <pan.2011.04.13.03.53.13.855010@myrealbox.com> (permalink)
References <BANLkTim4vPLRA1MgOXGJBLNXKoRr0QszDA@mail.gmail.com> <45mdnWtmRNzNJD7QnZ2dnUVZ_qWdnZ2d@posted.nuvoxcommunications>

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On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:30:40 -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote:

> In article <BANLkTim4vPLRA1MgOXGJBLNXKoRr0QszDA@mail.gmail.com>, John
> Mayson  <john@mayson.us> wrote:
>>Interesting...
>>
>>Salamfone Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Kuwait’s Reach Telecom has
>>launched the first ever Shariah Compliant mobile service in the world ...
>>
>>***** Moderator's Note *****
>>
>>I don't usually run PR notices like this (Sorry, John), but I'm making an
>>exception because I'm curious what the readers think about this kind of
>>marketing pitch.
> 
> As it apparently involves sending SMS messages and calls to the phone at
> random times, it should discourage the use of those phones as detonators
> for the not-so-smart bombs wearing clothing by duPont.
> 
> This sounds like a good thing to me.   *grin*

Unless these random messages appeared at least every couple of hours, then
they would be ineffective as any such "discouragement". How do you think
people would react to random messages arriving ~10 times a day to their
phones?

-- 
Regards, David.

David Clayton
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a
measure of how many questions you have.

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Islamic Mobile Service from SalamFone [telecom] John Mayson <john@mayson.us> - 2011-04-11 09:38 -0500
  Re: Islamic Mobile Service from SalamFone [telecom] bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) - 2011-04-11 21:30 -0500
    Re: Islamic Mobile Service from SalamFone [telecom] John Mayson <john@mayson.us> - 2011-04-12 19:33 -0500
    Re: Islamic Mobile Service from SalamFone [telecom] David Clayton <dcstar@myrealbox.com> - 2011-04-13 13:53 +1000
      Re: Islamic Mobile Service from SalamFone [telecom] "Michael G. Koerner" <mgk920@dataex.com> - 2011-04-14 19:36 -0500
  Re: Islamic Mobile Service from SalamFone [telecom] Abu Asmara <abuasmara50@gmail.com> - 2011-05-28 09:39 -0700

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